“Naked greed has been the moving spirit of civilization from the first day of its existence to the present time; wealth, more wealth, and wealth again; wealth not of society, but of this shabby individual was its sole and determining aim.”— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com
“Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it? David Byrne: I would get something to eat.”— David Byrne, imdb.com
“There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.”— Daniel Keyes, amazon.com
“There's a lot of give and take in my marriage. I give her my money and she takes my sanity.”— TommehBoi, reddit.com
“I tried to re-marry my ex-wife. But she figured out I was only after my money.”— EuroStep0, reddit.com
“Wealth is production. There may be prospective wealth, putative wealth, potential wealth, in the soil, in the ore veins, in various latent forms—but actual wealth is only that which has been produced into things men require. The more there is of production, therefore, the more there is of wealth.”— William Randolph Hearst, newspapers.com
“Writing is a notoriously bad life decision if one has goals of security, but I guess that, in order to fly, you have to lose touch with the ground.”— Torre Deroche, fearfuladventurer.com
“Even if you hit the literary jackpot of advance money, $200,000 divided by the years it usually takes to write and promote a single work is still likely to be a monetary downgrade to flipping burgers full-time.”— Torre Deroche, fearfuladventurer.com
“All desires are valid to a man with a full purse.”— David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Petyr Baelish, Aidan Gillen, imdb.com
“Always have a side hustle, an emergency fund, and a Plan B. Diversification means security.”— The Financial Diet, thefinancialdiet.com
“Buy fewer things more intentionally. Focus on quality, versatility, and usefulness, instead of instant gratification.”— The Financial Diet, thefinancialdiet.com
“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“So I jumped onto the money spending train... ... it's so easy once you accept that time is money!”— kyl3r123, reddit.com
“Can you imagine if someone called us a few years ago and said, ‘All right, you're going to have this much money when you're this age. What are you gonna do with it?’ You would say all sorts of fantastical things, right? No one would say, Oh, I would figure out how to make more money and keep working…”— Aziz Ansari, gq.com
“Apple's cash pile swelled again this quarter, hitting a record $261.5 billion, compared with $256.8 billion last quarter. That's up 13 percent year over year.”— Anita Balakrishnan, cnbc.com
“We spend all of our time trying to get money, then once we have it, we spend all of our money trying to get our time back.”— Matthew Santoro, twitter.com
“The risks associated with being a commercialized artist and embarking on a typical album release, like endless promotion and touring, have nearly killed me.”— Michael Angelakos, pitchfork.com
“Only when the last tree has died and the last river poisoned and the last fish caught will we realize we cannot eat money.”— Ashi Labouisse, twitter.com